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"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion." »William Cullen Bryant
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"practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming." »J.P. McEvoy
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"Hope is the nurse of misery." »American Proverb
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"Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom." »Laurence Sterne
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"Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition." »George Barrell Cheever
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"As one might nurse a tiny flame, The able and far-seeing man, E?en with the smallest capital, Can raise himself to wealth." »Buddhist
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"The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector." »Plato
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"The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." »Plato, The Republic
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"At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted." »Eric Idle
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"There is nothing more practical than a good theory." »Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, quoted in V Rich, Nature, 1977, 270, pp470-1
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"Engineering is the art or science of making practical." »Samuel C. Florman
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"practical politics consists in ignoring facts." »Henry Adams
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"If I was a father in a waiting room, and the nurse came out and said, 'Congratulations, it's a girl,' I think a good gag would be to get real mad and yell, 'A girl You must have me mixed up with THAT dork' and point to another father." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist." »Eric Hoffer
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"Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible." »Claude T Bissell
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"practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses." »Author Unknown
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"Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise risking more than others think is safe dreaming more than others think is practical and expecting more than others think is possible." »Unknown
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"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical." »William Seward Burroughs
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"The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions." »Unknown
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »H. L. Mencken
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"The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"Leadership excellence requires a balanced mix of paradoxes. Leaders need to be visionary yet practical, teachers yet learners, and believers yet open-minded." »Med Jones
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"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke." »Herman Melville
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"practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only." »Samuel Smiles
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »H.L. Mencken
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"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true." »Woodrow Wilson
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"There is no logical answer to the question ' Why be moral'. Religions provide practical answers to the question." »B. J. Gupta
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"practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare" »Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography
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